The beloved writer wouldn’t be published these days, yet her popularity among young people has soared Published 26 January 2023 his week, during an insomniac night, I was yet again re-reading Persuasion – no one else soothes quite like Jane Austen. Delighting in its...
Nicola Sturgeon, the usually surefooted Scottish First Minister, is risking her political future on a crazy cause: extreme trans ideology. Published: 24 January 2023 In the United Kingdom, to change your legal sex you must be over 18, have a medical diagnosis of...
The SNP’s new gender recognition reform is a danger to the safety of women and girls Published: 23 December 2022 Like many other Western countries, we are in an almighty, polarised mess about transgender rights, particularly competing trans and female rights in...
We have all seen the Society of Authors’ contamination by wokery, which has coincided with Joanne Harris’ appointment as chairman Published: 18 August 2022 I heard the tumbrils reaching the Society of Authors last March, when the president, Sir Philip...
A new breed of ‘offence archaeologists’ waging war on anyone holding dissenting views, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 15 June 2020 What sort of decrepit rock did you climb from under you absolutely hideous harridan?” tweeted one of my critics last week. “You’re...
Published: 29 November 2019 Two pieces of good news for beleaguered journalists today. Like anyone fearful about the imminent Corbyn Terror, I listened nervously this morning to Boris Johnson being mauled on LBC by Nick Ferrari and a selection of vexed phoners-in....
It has taken two years for state broadcaster to say sorry to journalist Kevin Myers, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 December 2019 This is the story of how RTE used taxpayers’ money to defame and persecute a brilliant man much disliked by the majority of...
